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This film is somewhere between full and short meter - 48 minutes, British director Niall McCormick filmed the poem of the same name by the poet Christopher Reed "The Song of Lunch" / The Song of Lunch, 2010. He and She meet 15 years after breaking up at an Italian restaurant in London’s Soho district, with which their past is connected, and, as you might expect, nothing good is happening. She, who came here from Paris, where she lives in a happy marriage with the man to whom she once left Him, and children, He still works as an editor at a publishing house, does not receive any satisfaction from his work, and is lonely in his personal life. She's trying to start a conversation. He is immersed in his thoughts and hovers in them, as evidently he has done before. The dialogue is minimal, and we hear the author’s monologue (and maybe it’s Him?). She says, He looks away at her, gradually getting drunk. The conversation never turned out, everything is in the past, quite in accordance with Shpalikov – “never go back to the old places”, I agree, you should not do this. It's gone. Starring Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman, it's worth watching for.
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